Leonotis decadonta Gürke
var. decadonta
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Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
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Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda road, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda road, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Chelinda road, Nyika National Park
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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More or less sparsely branched large shrub, up to 8 m tall but usually less. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, mor rarely elliptic or rhombic, 5-18 cm long, velvety above, more densely greyish hairy beneath; margin crenate-serrate; petiole 2- 40 mm long. Inflorescences of 3-5 hemispherical verticels per branch, 4-33 cm apart. Calyx 12-20 mm long, 10-toothed with teeth 4-6 mm long. Corolla 30-45 mm long, densely orange-scarlet hairy. |
Type location:
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Malawi |
Notes:
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Derivation of specific name:
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: with ten teeth, referring to the calyx. |
Habitat:
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In upland grassland and at forest margins, along streams and in open miombo woodland. |
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1200 - 2300 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):
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Zambian distribution (Provinces):
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Nw,Mc |
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Monday 5 November 2018 |
Literature:
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Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 184.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 28. As Leonotis decadonta
Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 69 - 70.
Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 112.
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Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A.
(2022).
Flora of Zambia: Species information: Leonotis decadonta var. decadonta. https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=207180, retrieved 20 May 2022
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